San Chao Jui Tui — Attraction in Talat Nuea

Vegetarian Festival Lived with the people of Phuket for a long time. more than a hundred years Vegetarian diet started from The opera troupe is from China. to show at Kathu District and having a vegetarian ceremony there for the first time Due to the outbreak of epidemics, a lot of people died and got sick. but it is strange None of the people in the opera troupe were sick. after an inquiry The opera troupe worshiped Chinese gods and ate vegetarian food, abstained from meat, and performed fasting for nine days and nine nights. and a miraculous event occurred that made the villagers in that area recover from the plague. And it was asked that the opera troupe to convey the complete vegetarian ritual. Money was then raised for the opera troupe to travel back to China to bring the ritual and vegetarianism back to Phuket. Three months later, after the villagers had waited in despair, a junk boat arrived at the sa-phan -hin bridge. and someone from the opera came back with Statues of gods and incense burners have been brought to Kathu District, where vegetarian events will be held on the calendar on the first day of the ninth lunar month of every year, and the tradition of vegetarianism in Phuket is well known to foreign countries. Every year, Thai and foreign tourists come together to dress in white. to participate in the vegetarian festival It is another important highlight of...

During the Vegetarian Festival this is the place to be, it seems to be the number one Chinese Shrine in town. At least its processions are the biggest and the loudest. At times of the Festival the shrine and the whole area are very crowded and noisy, so it's almost impossible to walk around and admire every corner of the complex. Be sure to wear white clothes if you don't want to be the only colorful one in the crowd. And it's more than advisable to bring earplugs, because the fire crackers are a main feature of the festivities. Some people wear a face mask to protect their lungs from the smoke of the fire crackers. As for myself I didn't notice any advantage of the mask, the smoke gets anywhere. It's an amazing, intriguing and...

There is a great confusion about this shrine and Wat Put Jor on internet and in Google maps too. These places have currently very different rating but many of their photos are photos of the other. That's not only because these two places are next to each other. Jui Tui shrine is in fact a large annex to Put Jor temple. It was built a century later but they are essential the same object. So that I'm going to rate them as one. It's a nice and colorful Chinese worship place. It's not a tourist attraction, it's real. And even though it's far away from being the most interesting shrine I've ever seen, it's always good to have a quiet and peaceful place like this around so I think it...